If you haven’t got the news already: The Federal Court of Justice in Germany recently declared software patentable without any reasonable limitation (German version on news service heise.de here and here).
While there are many efforts in the United States to fix the brokeness of their patent system – also in respect to Software Patents which have made more harm in the last decades than anything else – we here in Europe and especially in Germany are just doing the same mistakes again.
This is a very bad day for the Freeware, Shareware and also the Open Source scene – look out for patent trolls nearby you in the future…